Become part of the Converse Team

Converse is a place to explore potential, break barriers and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Converse, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving world to make things better as a team.

ABOUT OUR TEAM

By joining our team, you will be a strategic partner that collaboratively delivers enterprise value and innovation. We define leadership as growing yourself, growing together and growing the business: Be authentic, courageous and inspired by possibilities. Create an environment of inclusion and trust. Deliver results with clarity and accountability. We will rely on you to bring your whole self to work and you can expect in return an environment that fosters growth by challenging and inspiring you to lead in your space.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

As the demand for technology continues to evolve, we seek individuals who bring a unique perspective and new ways of thinking to elevate the brand’s potential. Our team maximizes a diverse set of backgrounds and skills to create and iterate on technical solutions that drive growth for our business. We work cross-functionally within the enterprise to solve problems and bring creative solutions to life. Always connected by a bigger purpose, we keep the consumer at the center of everything we do.

The Director of Technology: Converse Operations, Logistics and Corporate Functions will report directly to the Converse Senior Director of Global Technology.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Someone who can lead and transform the following key areas:

1) Provide Technology products, solutions and strategic partnership to enable the business strategies of supported functions, especially to drive Converse’s growth as an innovative and digital brand. This includes areas such as:

• Global and Regional Logistics

• Warehouse Management, Robotics

• Order to Cash

• Forecast to Receivables

• SAP Development and Platform evolution

• Order and Inventory Management focused on Direct to Consumer

• Finance, Procurement and HR

2) Converse Global Technology – provide technical leadership and partner with other leaders, to ensure all solutions are fully supported by Global Technology. Ensure that we are maximizing and leveraging our resources (people, funds, processes), while also specifically collaborating with areas such as:

• Data and Analytics

• Security and Data Privacy

• Architecture

• Technical Operations and Product Support

3) Nike Tech – Drive a strong partnership with colleagues across Nike, Inc., globally, to learn, share, leverage, and partner on solutions that meet shared business strategies:

• SAP S4 transformation and roadmap

• WM evolution

• Inventory and Order Management platforms

• EDI, Integrations

SPECIFIC KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive Logistics and Operations Technology strategies and execution across all capabilities.

• Ensure alignment with Converse strategic priorities. Drive a balanced approach to near- team goals (Win Now), while relentlessly focusing on longer term strategies (Creating the Future).

• Provide subject matter expertise, industry knowledge, and team leadership for Technology function.

• Engage Global and GEO Logistics and Operations business team members and partners to influence and drive best practices and innovative improvements to platforms, systems and processes.

• Effectively manage priorities across multiple products, technical teams, and business collaborators, using strong facilitation and conflict resolution skills.

• Manage an annual $4M+ budget to accomplish business and technology strategies.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, you’ll be working across multiple global and GEO Tech and businesses teams, clarifying short and mid term priorities while continuously communicating and thinking about the future.

You will have a good understanding about Footwear and retail businesses, while the right level of technical acumen to design our Tech roadmap to support our aspirations.

Additionally, you will also help to bring clarity to ambiguity and to shape your business peers’ strategic objectives by creating and implementing roadmaps of core Tech products, managing scope and delivery of key enhancements / programs.

All this work will happen through you team and partners, which you will coach and develop to reach their full potential. You will establish regular cadence of meetings and touchpoints to understand what is happening and how you can best support, and also deliver feedback on a timely manner.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

This position interacts with Converse Operations Leadership Team, Supply Chain Innovation Teams and Finance/Procurement/HR leaders as well. You will have an organization with multiple Tech products, supported by internal product managers and external engineering teams. Nike Tech will be a key player, as you are expected to learn, adapt and implement some of the broader Nike Inc platforms and standards at Converse.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field required

• Master’s degree a plus.

• Minimum of 10+ years’ work experience in a technology related field.

• Leadership and people management skills. Ability to coach and mentor so that team members are able to reach their full potential.

• Financial strategy and budget management skills. Ability to manage a multi-million-dollar annual budget and build compelling business cases to seek incremental investment for priority initiatives.

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal. Must be able to interact effectively across functions and cultures.

• Ability to influence unpopular decisions while maintaining strong working relationships

• Ability to critically analyze information & systems, creative problem solving skills & strategically plan complex organizational & functional interactions.

• Ability to manage multiple and changing processes and priorities.

• Ability to coordinate multiple and conflicting demands. Ability to meet deadlines.

• Organized and detail-oriented. Ability to work with ambiguity and try new solutions to existing or new problems.

• Ability to understand, design, & coordinate the implementation of new processes and systems.

• Experienced with Agile ways of working including Scrum at Scale and/or SAFe. Ability to use tools like Jira, Miro, Aha!. Ability to manage and work within an agile framework, while supporting business partners as they transition to the new ways of working.

Converse is more than a company; it’s a worldwide advocate for self-expression. This belief motivates our employees, permeates our working environment and inspires our products. No two of us look or think exactly alike. We are each one-of-a-kind. Individually and as a culture, we have the freedom to create and grow professionally. Generous benefits packages only sweeten the experience. From Boston to Shanghai, from Brand Design to Finance, Converse is a brand that celebrates the unique and creative people of the world. Together, we’re different.

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.